With the Cadillac CTS-V station wagon now hitting the streets, plenty of people are talking about muscle wagons, a segment arguably started by the 1954 Buick Century Estate Wagon – essentially a mid-sized Super Special chassis fitted with the full-size Roadmaster’s 322-cu.in. V-8. Of course, nobody called it a muscle wagon then, but the link […]

Indeed, the classic upright grille styling, which by the mid-1950s had been as dead as a doornail, was missed by Packard customers and salesmen. They kept asking for Packard to bring that little styling cue back to support Packard’s signature tombstone grille flourish. So Dick Teague did just that with the Packard Request, one of […]

Back in the days when it took giant brass ones, a truckload of skill and more than a hearty helping of luck to race behemoth thoroughbreds on primitive tracks on waif-thin tires, Earl Cooper and his No. 8 Stutz dominated West Coast racing, both with and without factory backing. Fortunately, as of SIA #82, August […]